I check on it quite often (I have a wide taste in blogs). A little conservative, but less pushing the agenda than some other blogs. Also a good place to run into some of our posters in the comments section.

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"Funny," said Lancelot, "how the people who can't pray say that prayers are not answered, however much the people who can pray say they are." TH White

She hears, upon that water without sound, A voice that cries, “The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.” We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable.

I occasionally read it, as with most other blogs mainly when I am linked to an article. I am - as, again, with most blogs - ambivalent towards it. I think that, like many other sites, it can be too harsh, and in a way that is not always in keeping with the way an Orthodox Christian should view things.

EDIT: Not that I mean to imply I am not myself often that way, just that it isn't ideal. Oh, and Fr. George, is there any particular reason you're interested in people's opinions?

You should understand, when I first found this particular blog it was next in my reading list after the Ochlophobist (I agree[d in Och's case] with neither one politically, I just enjoy reading highly politicized material). Monomakhos and OCA Truth I agree and gave veiled references in my original reply. Touchstone scores a few points in my book because while they are "conservative" they are also "ecumenical", which irks the "True Orthodox", which is just beautiful (a good reason, BTW, to appreciate the Manhattan Declaration. Anything that has both RC Sproul and the TO frothing mad is good for that, at least) .

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"Funny," said Lancelot, "how the people who can't pray say that prayers are not answered, however much the people who can pray say they are." TH White

It's been a while since Fr. George asked our individual opinions of this blog. I have in the past reviewed the AOI site outright I have ignored until now the blog. Now that I have read a large part of it I have added it to my daily reading list. I sense the blog's detractors here are just taking politically motivated reactions. My reactions are merely the opposite of those.

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"Religion is a neurobiological illness and Orthodoxy is its cure." - Fr. John S. Romanides

AOI is definitely good for comic relief during this grim Lenten season. I love how a couple of guys write a blog together and decide to call it an "Institute." And it only gets more pretentious from there.

AOI is definitely good for comic relief during this grim Lenten season. I love how a couple of guys write a blog together and decide to call it an "Institute." And it only gets more pretentious from there.

Thanks for proving my hunch.

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"Religion is a neurobiological illness and Orthodoxy is its cure." - Fr. John S. Romanides